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Among those who voted against the President were those he had long counted among his allies. Musharraf's former Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao switched sides at the last minute after deciding to "support the country's democracy." Said Sherpao: "[Musharraf] is going to fight these charges on a moral ground to try to disprove them. But when it comes to the numbers, I think he's lost it." The coalition now boasts numbers surpassing the two-thirds required for impeachment...
...followed the December 27 assassination of former prime minister and parliamentary candidate Benazir Bhutto. At least 23 riot police were killed and another 58 police and passers-by were injured when a man detonated his vest packed with ball bearings outside Lahore's High Court, according to Police Superintendent Aftab Cheema. Police have recovered the suicide bomber's head, which was thrown some 100 meters across a busy commercial square by the force of the blast...
...bigger problem, Aftab said, is the political situation and the treatment of those who are openly opposed to Musharraf...
...Aftab is in the process of making a Web site, an information portal with the latest updates from individuals in Pakistan...
Despite the disturbing situation in Pakistan, Aftab and Maham Siddiqi ’11 said their immediate family members have remained safe...